The Croatian Civic Initiative ( Croatian/ Montenegrin: ''Hrvatska građanska inicijativa'', HGI,

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: Хрватска грађанска иницијатива, ХГИ) is a

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of the Croat minority in

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History

The party was formed in 2002. It first participated in local elections in

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municipality that year, and established its headquarters in this town. HGI has best electoral results in Boka region, because the Croat minority is concentrated mostly in municipalities of Tivat and

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. Marija Vučinović was party president from 2006, until 2019. At the 2009

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in Montenegro, Croatian Civic Initiative was a part of victorious

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, alongside DPS, SDP, DUA and the

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. HGI contested the 2012

independently, and won 0.4% of votes, gaining one seat in the

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, because of the lower

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envisaged for the Croat minority, which has been set at 0.35%. The party entered a post-election coalition with ruling DPS and SDP. The party's sole parliamentary representative was Adrian Vuksanović, who was elected new president of the Party in 2019. In February 2019, following ideological disagreements with the HGI membership, Marija Vučinović was removed from the post president by the party's main board, remaining a minister in the Montenegrin government. Eventually she left the party prior the

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. In July 2020 she became one of the founders of the new Croatian minority interests

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, established when the centrist faction of the HGI defected from the party, and formed new political subject. At the first party congress, Vučinović was elected president of the new party. A newly formed party ran independently at the 2020 elections, competing for one Croatian parliamentary seat with the HGI. As there were two parties running represent interest o Croatian minority, they split votes, which led to no party crossing the 0.35% electoral threshold. In April 2022, after the fall od

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, new government under

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was composed including Adrian Vuksanović as minister without portfolio.

Parliamentary elections

Notes: Extra-parliamentary (2020-2022);

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(2022); Extra-parliamentary (2022-)

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